Trust me. You need to read the docs until you understand why this is totally
the wrong direction to be taking.
Make a whole-hearted commitment to using the standard UI as much as possible.
After all, it is a big part of why the platform is #1.
When you properly use standard UI elements, you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation
It's a windows thing.
Dave
On Apr 21, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Roni Music wrote:
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>> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:23:46 +0800
>> From: Bing Li
>> Subject: UI Design on iPad
>> To: Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:23:46 +0800
From: Bing Li
Subject: UI Design on iPad
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Dear all,
I am a new developer on iPad. After reading some books about Cocoa and
iPad,
I notice that the UI suppor
> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:23:46 +0800
> From: Bing Li
> Subject: UI Design on iPad
>
> I am a new developer on iPad. After reading some books about Cocoa and iPad,
> I notice that the UI supported by Interface Builder is not rich enough. Just
> some common widgets are available and no interfac
Don't forget that common look and feel is one of huge advantages of iOS apps. I
daresay most of the iOS apps with customised UIs look awful and their user
experience sucks.
Also, since it was mentioned, WPF gives developers great freedom to expose
their lack of taste.
The default look and feel
To second that, we use only UIKit and you can customize stuff very easily.
Buttons are probably the best example where you can make it look like anything.
There are some controls you can't customize (UISwitch), but there are open
source alternatives that are fully customizable - all written usin
Don't give up on UIKit. You will find you can do alot with UIKit. I have used
UIKit extensively for several large custom projects with great results. To see
the UIKit used to its fullest look at:
Disney Second Screen: Tron Edition -
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/disney-second-screen-tron/id426
Hi Bing,
Quartz should work most of the time, and you usually *don’t* have to move away
from UIKit. I really recommend that you don’t ditch UIKit — check out videos
from WWDC 2010 and see how far one can go. Without UIKit, you lose all the
features that come for free, which is almost always t
